marking a quilt
 

Please help I need help marking. Can anyone tell me something that works and will come out. Just marked with cream colored chalk and don't think it will come out. It is a white and pink fabric. Want to get some more marking done and quilting. will be having some more surgery and would like to get this quilt done.
thanks so much

For marking light fabric I use the water soluble blue pens like mark b gone more than anything else. The trick to these pens is to test, don't expose to heat and don't leave on the quilt too long (like months and months). Also the ink from these pens is never truly gone until the quilt has been completely submerged in water. The do disappear with spritzing but can come back because spritzing only disolves the ink down into the batting as the batting drys from the spritzing the marks can return or bleeds of blue ink can show up. Never had a problem once the quilt was laundered. First wash no soap. Soaps can react with the inks. I have also had great luck with crayola ultra washable markers. Again, test on the actual fabric you are using. Especially if the fabric has not been prewashed as factory sizing can impact how the ink reacts and can also affect how it washes out. I have ironed over the Crayola and it still washes out. These two are my go-tos for marking light fabrics. I use chalk on dark fabrics as well as the ceramic lead mechanical pencils like the Bohin one. They do make a darker lead for those but I have never tried it. But I have had those marks rub out before I got to quilting them. I could see the line faintly and it was enough to remark as I went but frustrating. There are so many options you just have to test things to see what works well for you and something that you had great success with before, may not work as well the next time, that is why you need to always test.

Those are great tips Feline Fanatic. I'm keeping a copy.

crayola washable markers are awesome! The only problem that I have had is that they don't show up on black fabric :)

mark b gone blue ink, but even the sun will set it in. No heat at all. One section at a time and spritz with cold water. Feline fanatic explained everything well. Dark colors, just white chalk

I do the same.

I've been using tailors chalk and it comes out just fine after washing.

When marking on dark fabrics, I really like white "charcoal" pencils better than chalk pencils. They sharpen to a finer point, and I use a rubber nubby or lint brush to brush them away.

Great tips...I just purchased a new blue Mark b gone as my other one finally dried out. I’ll have to give the Crayola markers a try.

crayola washable markers -

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Here are two examples of quilts i have marked with the crayola markers - all of the markings came off when I put them in the machine.

I haven't had any complaints with the Frixon pens I've used. I also use a white mechanical pencil from Fons and Porter on darker fabrics. It rubs out with a touch of a damp cloth. There are many options out there. Use what works for you. I've even used soap slivers with a sharp edge and they worked fine, too.

You didn't say what you're trying to mark. If it is straight lines across the quilt you can use painter's tape or contact sticky shelf liner. Don't leave them for a long time though.

When I just want to make a tiny dot or so on a quilt I use the water soluble blue fabric pens or tailor's chalk. The chalk should come out completely although you may have to brush it to completely "erase" it if it's a high contract color to the fabric. Use a brush that has a little stiffness to it - kind of like the brushes they sell for cleaning the bobbin area of your sewing machine.

I've used a thin sliver of soap to mark patterns, & painters tape for straight lines that didnt follow block lines. Both worked well.